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I'm not sure why they can't both be right.
Has there been any marxist regime - I'm excluding small self-contained communes because while that may be communism I'm not sure it counts as Marxism to wall yourself off from the outside world rather than attempting to engage with it, if only for the purposes of drowning capitalism in the blood of the workers - that hasn't killed big chunks of the population it's inflicting itself upon?
I don't think so, and keep in mind that those communes - whether hippie or Hutterite - find themselves having to trade/barter with outsiders in a more or less capitalistic way (and Hutterites are actually pretty sharky), and not all of them don't have outside day jobs. They ALSO involve very small amounts of people (about the same as, say, a stone-age tribalist band of extended family members) and colonies (hutterites again) tend to split when they get too big.
I believe the answe is 'no'.
Most ideologies make a sacrifice to implement themselves. The American Republic made a small one for independence, but 80 years later, sacrificed around 2 million to properly assert ideology.